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and he covered desperate cases of girls being trafficked for sex in India. Very moving, even if the viewer is resilient to another person's suffering. There were children taken from their parents at 9 years old and sold for sex, the girls become stigmatised and cannot go back...

An old bachelor eschewed the customary party before wedding, and over the objections of his groomsmen, went to Hooters instead. The servers were lovely, and he was pleased; but the chicken was tough and flavorless. "I've had better wings," noticed the best man. "We should have...

BUT I GREW UP RAISED IN A RELIGIOUS FAMILY. RELIGION CORRUPTS PEOPLE, THE WORLD WE LIVE IN AND SOCIETY, BECAUSE RELIGION IS MORE OF A CULT. RELIGION WAS MADE BY MAN. IF ANYTHING, THIS WORLD LACKS SPIRITUALITY, BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS, YOU DONT NEED RELIGION TO KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG...

Towards the end of my novel MS The Theory of Relativity, the protagonist Albert A. Stone is asked to write an essay on the The Mind of God. Here is what he said:
Thus far we have found it nigh on impossible to understand the mind of man – or woman. How much more difficult...

w hy cant all of us live together as just human beings? why do different ppl in different parts of the world have different gods????
why does a set of rules or privilages that apply to ppl of certain religion, does nt apply to ppl belonging to any other religion...

What follows is a series of extracts from my as yet unpublished novel MS "The Theory of Relativity." By the way, my earlier story in this Experience, Heirs of the Ages, is also an extract from that same MS.
The things we swallow. The kind of rubbish teachers and parents and...

Now for something completely different: a little light relief.
Bert informs readers what his best friends thought of his newly published essay; he tells us about comments made by his army superiors, his twin brother, and their other friends.
What did Warrant Officer II Hendrik...

and that if all the people in the world could just accept the fact that the choices they make every day in their life affect their life and not some all knowing all seeing God. I just find that many religions are used to hold people down or to make them accept their lot in life...

There are so many arguments by religious individuals and groups as to why we must believe. But really why? God this and god that, but the reality is I see no place for deities of any sort in the universe. As for god the character, I believe it was Richard Dawkins that said...

Anthropology and archaeology take us back beyond history, providing strong evidence that no human societies have existed lacking the company of some belief system we may call religion. For 6 million years our hominid ancestors have populated the planet. Using a principle of...

whenever I get to my work. It has a proud sign saying "14 religions, one college".
How about the non-religious? And why do they imply everyone is of a faith? Not just this, but simply saying '14 religions' is highlighting the emperor's new clothes, or lack of clothing to...

I want people to accept that there is a very very small or the smallest small chance that they even myself might be right of what we believe. And that you should learn about someone's believe and culture before you decide to blindly say they are wrong. Even that atheists...

It always brings a smile to my face when I see a church with a "for sale" sign in front.
Last week I found out that the bar where I eat lunch a few times a week was once a church. I think a bar is an excelent use for a church. A building which used to be a drain is now taxable...

Since I relinquished my faith and discarded the absurd beliefs that have been forced on me since infancy I have felt liberated.The catalyst was Sam Harris' "The End Of Faith".
I really wish everybody would do the same then we might have some chance of surviving the...

as good news for those who dislike religion and who want their voices heard. A survey at my workplace is asking young people about their views of radicalism and the options of 'religion' are alphabetical, this means agnostic and atheist are top (see picture). Yes neither are...

w hy cant all of us live together as just human beings? why do different ppl in different parts of the world have different gods????
why does a set of rules or privilages that apply to ppl of certain religion, does nt apply to ppl belonging to any other religion...

You don't have to read The Origin of Species to resist fundamentalist dogma. Participating in EP's Q&A, I was reminded that my skepticism about religion originated in the kiddie monograph, "How Babies Are Made." I studied this in preparation for a birth in the family when I was...

paradox as it was a conflict of my two greatest passions: hatred of religion and the welcoming of equality for all. I saw a girl with her mother walking into my local leisure centre and this girl clearly had Down's Syndrome. What was worse, however, is that she was wearing a...

I do want to end religion. All sorts of horrific things have been done in the name of religion-but I also believe that people NEED religion. Well, some people. My father was an atheist (which is where I get my doubting attitude from I suspect), but my mother was (what she...

Hi,everyone! Before I start my story I want true Muslims or any religious people leave this page,because you won't be happy with that:)
Anyway,I was born muslim,but never practiced my religion.Growing up in Soviet Union I didn't see anybody who was practicing islam,but later on...

Islamic State, Boko Haram, suicide bombings in Shia mosques, trial security tests in the UK, enforced lessons in public institutions to notice 'grooming', then a foiled bombing in London attempted by Islamic supporters three ******* days ago! The root cause of all these is...

and I wish for others to follow its logic. A noisy biker just revved outside my house interfering immensely with my concentration when reading. Now, from that example I extrapolated because that was only a minor annoyance I experience in life and there are many others in my...

I want to get my graduate degree in 6 years. I want to major is psychology.
What I want to do is put people like Bill O'Reilly and alex jones and Victor Zammit in the asylum. They are damaging humanity for the worse and hurting people. We need to stop them, NOW!!!!

What is it that pushes one to theology? I ponder this question often, I've read and listened to the works of the Four Horsemen, (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett), everyone has their opinions including me, but what is the real answer?
I look...

When you choose your gods choose strong ones. When you fashion them in your own image, imagine stoutly and boldly. Attribute to them gentle and considerate words such as compassion, understanding, love and turning the other cheek. But beneath that veneer render them physical...

Taim bipo
Scene: The nothingness. Big E a smoggy misty blob ethereally in the nothingness. All communication of Big E with its ethereal self is in some automatic unspoken language, translated here for ease of comprehension, into modern English. In the nothingness there is...

Rcently I have had reason to be confronted with a few cases of childbirth which say significant things to me about its origins, and the implications of that for faith and belief in an ethereal creation.
The cases involve young women, one the ex-wife of a friend, one the wife of...

Thanks for commenting on the last story, Abusive Beliefs.
I was going to answer you both privately but this will do better.
@bbwneeds:I was going to write that my username should really be "Pity the suckers" or "IHateTheConsequences of absurd beliefs" but no...

It seems obvious to me that all the greatest atrocities committed in the history of our species have been in the name of one god or another. From the crusades to the suicide bombings of today, the devoted have spared none....including their own.
It breaks my heart.
Let me be...

The topic discussed in this essay is religion and why it should be erradicated from society. Religion is bad and it has done little good for society. It has killed more people than any nuclear missile has before. Believers use the argument that science has produced weapons to...